{{Short description|British diplomat and entomologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Alfred Ernest Wileman''' (27 February 1860 – 15 February 1929) was a British diplomat and entomologist.
Wileman was appointed as the British Vice Consul for the Japanese city of Hakodate and surrounding prefectures in April 1901,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27308 |date=26 April 1901 |page=2856}}</ref> and moved to be consul to Taiwan in 1903,<ref name="Edinburgh Gazette - 22Sep1903">{{cite news|url=http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/11552/pages/981/page.pdf|title=Edinburgh Gazette - 22Sep1903|date=September 22, 1903|work=Edinburgh Gazette|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|access-date=8 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527163519/http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/11552/pages/981/page.pdf|archive-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and to the then Territory of Hawaii in 1908.<ref name="London Gazette - 03Jul1908">{{cite news|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28154/pages/4817/page.pdf|title=The London Gazette, Friday July 3, 1908|date=July 3, 1908|work=London Gazette|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|access-date=8 December 2011}}</ref> In 1909, he was appointed Consul-General to the Philippines (then a United States territory).<ref name="Edinburgh Gazette - 19Nov1909 - Alfred Ernest Wileman, Esq., to be His Majesty's Consul-General for the Philippine Islands, to reside at Manila">{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/12196/pages/1218/page.pdf|title=The Edinburgh Gazette, November 19, 1909|work=Edinburgh Gazette|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|access-date=8 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527163500/http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/12196/pages/1218/page.pdf|archive-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Wileman was an accomplished amateur lepidopterist.{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} He is credited with identifying in 1911 Flavinarosa obscura, which is found in Japan.
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